Was Britney Spears Hiding Something All Along? Body Language Analyst REACTS to Viral Interview 

As someone who was raised by narcissists, I believe that she was brainwashed into thinking that the conservatorship was justified. The way my family had always justified and gaslit me about my abuse, including people I called friends that I myself brought into my life. We know something isn't right and so we disassociate into the person the family aka cult following needs us to be. Britney really went through it, I pray she finds the best healing and finds the best kind of happiness 💖💖💖🙏🏼

I'm reading her book and so many things that cause trauma...Crazy how the media treated her and how we all perceived her...I hope she finds true peace and happiness

The sad part was that she never hid any of this from the public. She broke down in tears during interviews, was harrassed to the point of breaking, and cried out for help many other times and the public ignored it. Most didn't understand how programming works back then and the media fed us all whatever they needed to for the chosen narrative to stick. I mean, they took her apology to an unborn life, the dramatization of her abortion, and the regrets tied to that and turned it into "she knew she was so wrong and now is apologizing to justin"

It's not just her mouth. Her eyes are sad ...

Hi Spidey! I am a Britney fan and have followed all the court developments, watched a lot of interviews, read the book, etc. and I started following your channel with the HeardvDepp trial analyses. I rewatched this Jonathan Ross interview just a few days ago and was really hoping you’d cover it, so THANK YOU!! I would have liked to get a more thorough/complete analysis however! Brit does a lot of mouth covering in other parts of the interview, she is embarrassed by some things and I could feel her body language shift when she failed at the first beerpong pass for example … she seems very hard on herself there, from my perspective she kind of went from the helpless girl attitude, to the “no this isn’t me I’m better than this” and body language switching into a more competitive/athletic stance, and then back to the playing of a girly part… I thought this was so interesting and exemplary of the dichotomy she must have been feeling about her situation, between the subdued helpless Britney that she was forced to be and the original, stronger character she really has. I don’t know if you could speak to that in a follow-up video or something, I really felt like I picked up on a whole veil of her character while watching the full interview. Anyway thanks again for your top quality insights as always :)

Her eyebrows are not moving, as most of her face other than her lips ,due to the Botox. Actually, her eyebrows are usually not that low, and this so-called droopingness happens when there is too much Botox injected into her forehead and her eyebrows become too heavy which can cause a headache.

Interesting about the hand to chest thing, Johnny Depp does that, AND the open mouth smile all of the time. I’ve always appreciated that about him, now I know why ☺️. Britney’s book is next on my list on Audible, and I’m not even a fan… it’s just that she and my daughter Britaini are very close in age, and I just feel so horrible for her with the little snippets that I’ve heard. Adore you, Spidey!!! 💖🌸💖

people also tend to head tilt when they're flirting. It may also be an attempt for her to create a connection, by showing vulnerability and thus signaling trust.

I am so sorry for her. Her own family destroyed her. For greed.

You are the only body language expert that I watch and listen to honestly I just take everything u say word for word and that's it no doubt about your judgement. Thank you for the time and effort 💖

Part of me wonders if some of the stress Britney experiences when asked if she goes out is just related to her prior (and very public :( ) mental breakdown and her not wanting to be perceived in this moment as being a partier and/or drug/alcohol user by the public. She really stressed not going out as if she didn't want to be perceived as a party girl in any way. I'm thinking a lot of that has to do with the negativity surrounding her mental breakdown and her public image. Just a guess/alternative view. Of course only Britney knows for sure!

Extremely good and thorough analysis with the benefits of hindsight and additional information about a public figure, what's not to like? Nada!

Love Britney and it breaks my heart what she went through 🥺

So much fun and educational--plus you're super empathetic.

Fantastic, I've been an avid supporter in all areas of Britney life. Her reactions and behavior demonstrated, were so much of every person who has been led into the dilemma of her life.

You focused on the conservatorship, but there is awkwardness around partying because of all the stuff she went through before the conservatorship: drugs, hair shaving, rehab, too much wild partying.

She looks frustrated when she says i'm fine just the way i am.

Hey Spidey, it just crossed my mind that it'd be great if you could do a behavioural analysis on your own videos? When you talked about your own experiences, I've noticed quite a lot of things you typically mention. So it'd be great to know if you'd see them yourself as well. Love your videos btw started with your analysis of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial and really get hooked by your neutral standpoints and patient explanations! All the best from Austria

Your video came up in recommendations, maybe because just a couple of days ago I watched this interview. I don’t know anything about body language and face expressions, but definitely I thought there was some tension happening when that topic about going out was brought up.

In German we are saying "Hand aufs Herz" "Hand to the heart" when we asking somebody to tell the truth "Hand to the heart, did that really happen?" Now I understand where this is coming from.

You also have to remember that she was under the influence of psychotropic medications. So these drugs would affect both her perception of her reality and her reactions to it. If you look at several of her interviews and public appearances, she looks and acts stoned. Now we know she was and it just had an Rx after it!

Oh man, the Jamie Lyn GMA interview for her memoir comes to mind, talking about how she tried to help Brit get out of the conservatorship.

Can you do ones like the OJ Simpson interviews post trial, or the UFO abduction/encounter video?!

Fame is a Foucauldian prison. Fame IS the Panopticon. Where's my TARDIS?

I get rabid when trolls talk crap about Brit in social media comment sections.. The only famous person I would ever defend. Britney is precious and has been through hell. She deserves the world and for idiots to leave her TF alone. ❤️❤️‍🔥❤️

I'll be sure to incorporate hand to chest in my lying. Thanks! 😊

What if, when she said “There’s a lot of drugs involved” she partially meant that she was being drugged and couldn’t go out?

She probably prefers questions about her music, albums, tours etc.. rather than talking about her private personal life, which I think would stress most people out doing so in front of a studio audience of 500+ people and millions on TV.

29:51 that expression after the yes sir seems a look like discontent

She doesn’t even look like the same person anymore

With personal experience I want to throw in the thought of her growing up learning her own feelings and wants is not important. Everyone telling her what to do her whole childhood/early adulthood. A form of brainwash. That upbringing teaches you to surpress your own feelings and needs to that point that you're not in contact with them anymore. That is why I THINK you don´t get clear red flags and signs from her. She has resigned on the inside and there is nothing that contradicts her answers. If she would have been more free living (with a more normal upbringing) in her life prior to the conservatorship you would have gotten way more signs and red flags. I feel terribly sorry for her after reading her book. Noone should go through that. No wonder she feels lost. Sending Love!

I wonder how much of her "lack of body language" has to do with trauma coping. For example: many women in abusive relationships will stop fighting back and completely submit. They will then start coming up with their own validations as to why they allow abuse rather than repeating words from their abuser. So when Brittany says.. I can't go because there are drugs there, it really reminded me of watching a woman start to make up her own valid reasons why she can't go out, rather than believing it's her partner who is disallowing it. ... aka I want to go but I have made the choice I can't because there may be drugs. The coping mechanism is so that they don't have to keep lying for someone else. They find their own reasons to comply with abuse so they can live with it. Anyhoo just a thought

Saying it’s unfortunate how she was treated is such an understatement! I was never a huge Britney fan but after reading her book and finding out the extent of the horror she faced starting with at the time of the conservatorship being granted the court had not seen one medical document to say that she needed a conservatorship . Then reading how her children were wrongfully taken away when she was a new mother thus loosing full custody of her babies (which she had until the conservatorship) her babies were used as pawns to control her, with visitations dangled above her head to make her complacent. Just thinking about the pain that would cause any mother is truly heartbreaking & unimaginable. Her enslavement (her words) by being forced to work year after year in Vegas making millions which she couldn’t even access & at the same time the court being told she couldn’t function, manage her money or her life is just unbelievable. Then fact that she was forcefully medicated on multiple medications with NO diagnosis of any condition and after she finally stood up to her family (ie) Her dad she was forced into a dangerous medical facility and put on lithium where she couldn’t even speak! That’s just some of the things that happened to her. So I’m sorry but simply saying it’s unfortunate doesn’t cut it.

I've always loved Britney. Her behavior on social media is really weird, but I know her path has been such a crazy one. That girl has been through a lot. I hope she finds peace and gets to enjoy the rest of her life on her own terms

I’m reading her book and her life was horrible! I just can’t imagine being treated like that by your family. She can’t be normal with the quantity of hard medications given to her and the way she was treated. It really shows that you can be miserable poor like me or billionaire like her.

Ah, Britney. I wish her nothing but good health, happiness, safety, peace, & love.

IMO, that big open mouth smile is her stage/tour training. When she's up on a big stage, with the neatest fan being 5+ meters away, that type of smile is necessary and she just brought that habit onto the show. It looks very huge in closeups, but from 30 meters away it simply registers as "she's smiling"

I think this will be remembered as one of the worst individual human rights atrocities of the last decade+. Basically conspiracy to kidnap involving or directed by a corporation and facilitated by lawyers, judges, doctors, therapists, mental health professionals - people who are supposed to be impartial and protectors of individual rights - and made her a domesticated entertainment servant. Her temperament and personal history made her more vulnerable and ALL of the people who could have or should have protected her were involved in the conspiracy. Hopefully someday the people responsible and complicit will be held responsible in some manner 😢😔🙏

I love your work, Spidey. Thank you for covering Britney. While I've never been a big Britney fan (no feelings about her one way or another), after hearing about what's been done to her and reading her book, I am invested emotionally and am so glad she has escaped the unjust captivity and humiliation she endured. You are so insightful - I just love the honesty and endless well of information about body language you share with us. It is comforting and wholesome to watch something real (not put-on and fake), as is so much of the content on TV. I probably look forward to your videos the most out of all the RU-vid content I consume. Thank you, Spidey. 😊

She looks like a person who is depressed but with a quiet depression. Maybe at that time she was convinced this way of life was her only option. Or maybe that it was good for her. Doesn't look really happy to me.

Thanks for covering Britney. ❤ She is an amazing survivor. Her book is wonderful, too. This is the show she tried to talk about the consevatorship, but her handlers made them edit it out.

Not a Britney music fan, or a fan of celebrity on any level but, I am a fan of human behavior, and being able to see how celebrities behave has always been a fun study. Britney has always seemed so genuine to me, and just plain GOOD. Watching the media hurt her has burnt me up inside for 25 years. I watched that 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer live the Friday night it came out. I was getting ready for work at the bowling alley I bartended at, and i felt so much anger towards Diane Sawyer, my eyes welled up with tears before i even saw Britney start crying. I was trying to keeo my makeup right but that was over the moment they showed Britney breakdown. I felt so much hatred towards that news entity in that moment, and I never watched anything with Diane Sawyer in it again... except later on, in clips exposing her as being disgusting and disrespectful to other woman in interviews. Long before that, I was in my mid teens watching the paparazzi stalk Britney, lining the grocery store checkouts with 20 fraudulent covers a week, exploiting her on every level and without any shame!! I haven't knowingly opened a TMZ article one time since i first got online. And now it turns out TMZ played a huge part in maintaining her conservativorship and the lies upholding it. The injustice of the whole thing tears me up. I can't stand a world where people call for her to remain in the conservatorship because she acts a certain eay that doesn't align with their standards and opinions on how she should behave. Shame on those people. And to them i say, what if it was YOU? What if it was your mother, your sister, or brother? What if they had their babies used as pawns in a twisted game of extortion and imprisonment? And what if they were given unnecessary prescription medications, and had their children withheld, when they didn't follow orders? And what if none of that happened but, they were a little quirky and had a different temparment that what is considered the "norm"? Should they have their constitutional rights revoked?? Should they be held against their will by people they didn't even choose, and worked to death to make everyone around them millionaires? Isn't a conservatorship for someone who's unable to care for themselves, let alone run an empire?? Stop saying people should be in a conservatorship because that is one slippery slope. Your human rights are already being whittled away in a regular basis. People need to put themselves in Britney's shoes. Instead, people have an easier time identifying with her captors! That's pretty sick IMHO. Lets not allow this to happen to anyone else. We need more auditors. We need more people willing to pushback against our government officials, especially our courts and the injustice system. Probate and family courts are dangerous institutions and we need more transparency in OUR courts and government offices. Make a stand any which way you can. Lets not lose our humanity so easily and fight for the rights of someone you might not fully agree with because it could easily be you! #JusticeForBritney #AbolishQualifiedImmunity #TransparencyInCourt

When you were talking about her mouth scrunching up, i thought it was a shrug, then you said it could look like contempt, but feels like a shrug. I was so proud of myself! Thank you for being such a good educator!

We shouldn't forget she's probably quite heavily medicated at the time. Could that tone down her responses?

Thanks for covering this Spidey. Britney has always come across as a real sweetheart to me. It's awful to think of the hugely talented artists who are being manipulated, controlled, or even abused by people behind the scenes purely motivated by money. I feel like Whitney Houston was one of the people who didn't escape those exploiting her good nature and talents. I hope Britney can go on to be happy and healthy in her life ❤

Having read her book now, this analysis feels completely correct to me. There IS stress around her going out and partying because she wasn't allowed to do it. The "I'd have to see" comment was DEAD ON because she WOULD have to "ask for permission" Regarding the comments about her liking staying in, watching movies, hot chocolate, etc isn't because she accepted that this was her life, so much. You hit the nail on the head with the fact that she wasn't allowed to go out. It's also that it's a TRUE statement. She DOES love those things and they're her favorite things to do, but the issue was that she didn't have the freedom to choose to do anything OTHER than that. She had no agency to say "I WANNA go to that party tonight." It's heartbreaking what she's been through. So many people STILL need to be held accountable for what they did to her, IMO. She deserves all that is good in this world. 💜 Thank you so much for this video, Spidey. 💜💜💜

The thing is we knew about the conservatorship when it happened. At least those of us who are old enough to have watched all of this happen. We just didn’t know it was still in place and what her parents said in court documents to get the conservatorship. There’s one hospital in California in particular that is well known for putting people under 51/50 holds. The same hospital that Britney was taken to the night before all of this began with her father. I’m really grateful for the #FreeBritney movement and lawyers like BJ from That Surprise Witness who donated their own time to dig through court documents and find all of this information out and make it public.

Brit is one of the only one that can pull of an open mouth smile all the time and still look gorgeous. I feel like she is like, known for that. She has always done it.

I just wish she wouldn’t think that she has to show off her body on Instagram. It seems that she was brainwashed to believe that your value comes from being sexy and beautiful…she is a mega talent, who doesn’t need to prance around in undies, or sheer mini dresses, to be valued. I really pray that she can find a counselor that does talk therapy, without drugs. I hope she finds her peace, and her value just being Brittany. I really hate what happened to her.

The word "masking" comes to mind here. Remember, she has been groomed by Hollywood (including likely MK Ultra mind control programming/SRA) to give the proper answers and behave in a certain way when she's "on", i.e. conducting a polished interview such as this. I believe that she has had to master how to compartmentalize. However, her sadness, loneliness, and emptiness is palpable to me. The eyes say it all. She has been a human marionette, so to speak. But what we are witnessing lately is her programming coming undone as she is manifesting her true screwed up self. It's very tragic that her own parents, and all those around her whom she should have been able to trust, have betrayed her in every way. I pray for her to heal and turn back to faith in the Lord, which she has recently disavowed. 🙏

It's just fascinating, how, universally, our faces and bodies "tell on us"!!

I love your content. It is all very well thought out and easy to understand. Thank you for all the work you put into each video. Looking forward to more 💕🙂

Im happy to see you cover Britney, some other interviews would be incredible to see broken down, when the media was just so inappropriate with her.

I have a hard time answering closed ended questions like, are you happy or, is life good? There are no absolutes so I can’t enthusiastically say yes to those questions even if I feel the majority of the aspects of my life are good. That’s what I picked up on in Britney’s interview, although that could be my own projection. I also wonder if at that point she really understood how bad things were for her, it can be so hard to recognize when you’re in a bad situation. Anyway, great discussion Spidey!

Knowing nothing going in, the assumption I would have made is that she is a recovering addict avoiding the drug scene. In retrospect my thinking, based on her answer, is that it might be what she’s being told..almost like taking to a child. “Oh, you want to go to the party? Well those are private parties and we haven’t been invited. There’s a lot of drugs there anyway.” Dismissive, excuses, and telling her what she can and cannot do.

I stand firm in my beliefs that Brittney has DID and either isn't disclosing it (nor should she. The stigma around the disorder is hectic and worse than any other mental illness) or isn't diagnosed.(Again- not surprised at all given it takes 9 yrs in therapy to get a semi accurate one).. She's switching in soooo many interviews over the years and its so blatantly obvious once you know what you're looking for/at... (i have it too)

She has sad eyes.

Her father belongs in jail

Poor Britney, she's been through hell. I hope it's over but I have this lingering feeling deep inside they're still trying to go after her.

GREED....damm near destroyed this woman....shame on her family

Spidey I also want to say that I got my degree in sociology minor in psychology, and that's one of the reasons I love your content. That last picture of Britney's fake smile, without looking at it through the lens of hindsight; it looks like she's hiding being unhappy. The smile looks so forced and fake, and me personally after studying expressions, I looked at that picture and went "God she looks unhappy" Like you said, it's not enough to look at that picture and think there's something severely wrong but that facial expression just conveys to me that she was unhappy and trying to hide it in that moment

Does anyone else feel like the phrase "hindsight is 20/20" has a whole new meaning since covid?

She just exudes relatability and kindness for some reason. Her laugh and smile really is contagious. It broke my heart to read her book

Great analysis! I would love your input on her interview with Diane Sawyer as well, if you have time!

Since it's impossible not to like your videos, I hit that like as soon as the video starts! Close to 1 million, man!

I think Britney was so used to being cast as the bad one in her family. She was trained to take the blame. Reading her book I find she is not even close to fully realizing the betrayal of her family. She still says things like 'I wasn't that bad'. Nothing she did made her deserve what happened.

Oh my gosh! I got it! I got it! When she was avoiding answering that one question, I thought, "Chaff and redirect". Thank you so much for being such a positive presence on social media (the behavior panel and law tube, too) I appreciate ALL of you!

I couldnt imagine being trapped like that for ALL OF MY 30's. Hell no.

I keep thinking how much her IG videos seem so out of place when she doesn't have a stage, lighting, and a team of dancers behind her. Thanks Spidey. :)

*I really wish The Johnathan Ross show would upload the full unedited video where her "team" made them cut it out of show, talking about the conservatorship*

as a person that lives with bipolar disorder, i know it would be hard to come right out and say.....listen i am on a shit ton of meds and i cant drink and do other drugs. just a thought

She looks really sad to me, Spidey! Thanks for a great video!!

I've been waiting for this (or even the Diane Sawyer interview)! Thank you!!This poor woman had soooo many dark secrets! I'm so sad for her. I wish her nothing but peace and happiness.

Ordinarily, I tend to avoid RU-vid videos more than ten or fifteen minutes in length, because I just don't feel like I can spare the time. But even though yours are typically over a half hour long or more, I watch and it doesn't seem long at all. You always keep it interesting and informative, Spidey. Great job! 😊

I feel like Brittany is in arrested development, due to her conservatorship and now the whole world is watching her struggle through this as a grown woman with teen level emotions still. I’m no psychologist though 😅

My ex husband is a narcissist and so is his entire family. Parents, siblings, cousins, aunt etc.. it was so horrendous it almost gave me a nervous breakdown. I took our two children and never looked by. The court n police decided that the family was not aloud near myself and the kids, it was too detrimental and destructive to their mental health.

Britney really was just a normal, southern, literal backwoods girl that wanted to perform for the world. She did that, and was great at it, and she never lost that small town southern girl in her but everyone else did. And they punished her for it somehow. Strong-ass woman and Survivour.

I really don't agree with you that there was no signs of negative emotions towards her family in this interview - her energy is tense, she avoids eye contact on certain issues, her voice will fluster and go high when asked about certain things, she will say "nice" things about her childhood as if it's something rehersed that she just needs to "move on through" and "get it over with". When asked about her boys, it is just ALL OVER HER FACE, fake smiling, tense lips, dead eyes when smiling. She was performing this whole entire interview and her pain was visible every step of the way. It is obvious to me that she's feeling depressed.

I just see CPTSD, I so feel for her.

Interesting to see all the head tilts and all those expressions of innocence. I forgot she used to display so many characteristics of an open and trusting person--someone who is easily taken advantage of and for whom it might take years to get fed up with a family who insists they're looking out for her, but instead are keeping her from emerging as an adult. My only response, after this, is a genuine, non-sarcastic "Bless her heart."

To me, actually, when she turned to the audience, her eyes read as sad. She has the tight smile of someone pretending to be happy but holding back tears.

She’s clearly been off meds since she was freed

When she answered “Yes, sir”, I thought it injected a level of military style answers to the question whereas they were peers almost up until then. At that point, he triggered an authority figure response from her in the topic of the question.

'And you seem in a really good place right now.' Her nodding and looking away ... me thinking '😳😨 Fook no she isn't !' She's 'meh' at best.

Spidey upload!! 🎉🎉🎉🥰 I am looking forward to the rest of this... You are compassionate Spidey, it's why you're my favorite. I like when you do subjects like this. 🖤

I can't even imagine how hard life under conservatorship must be..Like a little chirpy bird slowly resigning itself to it's gilded cage and growing silent😢 She did very well all things considered, I do think though that questions like these, about her everyday life made her uncomfortable because she was realising that she doesn't really have that much to talk about..probably didn't even know her own self well because of how restricted her life was😢

Yes it does look like it’s more honest with the hand to the chest

Love this video! Super interesting. Would love to see more videos of Britney!

❤Another careful, thoughtful effort, so consistently put into Spidey's behavioral analysis, which I really appreciate about this channel. Just one thought that wasn't brought up. What if this interview was the moment Brittney came face to face with the fact that she wasn't allowed her own agency? After all, the questions seemed to have been intentionally honing in on it (without saying it outright). Because Jonathan Ross kept digging at it and she kept dodging it, could this have been the beginning of the end, the place where she started to realize that she didn't feel in charge of her own life - that it didn't seem normal and that she wasn't really as happy as she could and/or should have been?

Am I the only one noticing the light bulb to the left of Spidey moving?!?? 33:45 Anyway, another great video Spidey!! Always so interesting and informative. Thank you for the entertainment again!!

I love Spidey! Another awesome video! ❤😊❤ At the end of her interview, now, wow the sadness I felt behind her eyes hit me hard. I too, have been treated horribly by my family and am completely estranged from them now, so I really relate.

Britney has really been the poster girl for "do you really want to be famous? Her life reads like a typical movie of a rising and falling star who then gets redemption in the final act.

I can’t stop thinking about this, I hope you don’t mind the suggestion spider, but Sam And Colby just did an interview about their latest big video series (they stayed a week and the conjuring house) and I felt like Sam made some weird faces that I wish you had been there to comment on. Since you have strong feelings about this sort of showmanship anyways it adds another layer in interest. If you ever watch their videos or this interview they did I would love to watch your comments in it!!

Despite the mistreated she received from the very same people that should love her, she is a nice and loving lady. I wish her all the best and really hope she finds her own way to build a happy and healthy life.

They say "don't meet your heroes" but Spidey would totally make it 1000% worth it !! Just thought I'd leave this here.

Her mouth shrug... I felt a sense of her feeling she was missing something. Idk why, but it was a sense of "I wanted it to be what I'm describing, but I was missing something, and I feel a loss of something" It felt like she knew it wasn't a normal childhood, but she wanted it to be and wanted to convince the audience and herself that it was a normal childhood.

Haven't even started the video yet, but I had to exclaim...Yayyyy another Spidey video 🙌🏼🩵

The stress Britney shows with the "are you going out" question, is there an indication if she is not allowed to say she cannot go out on her own or is it she does not want us to know that she is in conservatorship? What do you guys think?

That was the first thing that I noticed when she entered the stage, her smile never lit up her face. I like her music but was not a fan who could tell by her body language or social media posts that something was wrong as years passed. This woman was able to care for herself, work a very challenging job that involved rehearsals, choreography and memorization. How a conservatorship was kept on for 13 years without the person in the conservatorship being audited annually to be sure her status had not changed is unbelievable. Shame on those in power who did nothing to help her all the way from the laws in California, to the judge, to the attorneys and finally to Brittany's family. Only her fans did not fail her.

Did you think maybe, if she said the "wrong" thing or words there could be a punishment? That's what it sounds like to me. I guess like, if you are talking to a child and your parents tell you to say such and such, only and if you don't, then you can't do this or have that. Over all it was a great break down